{"title":"Table Placements","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eBeautifully crafted table placements bring artistry and elegance to the dining table while defining each place setting with style. Designed to enhance both everyday meals and special occasions, they add texture, color, and visual interest to the table while helping protect surfaces from spills and scratches. Featuring intricate patterns, decorative details, and fine craftsmanship, these ornamental pieces transform dining into a more refined and inviting experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"padmini-table-placements-in-wood-set-of-6","title":"Darbar Table Placements – In the Agra Carpet Tradition, Set of Six","description":"\u003ch5\u003eProvenance\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vocabulary of the Indian carpet — central medallion, layered floral borders, deep navy and red against a gold field — was never purely decorative. It was a register of cultural exchange: Persian form absorbed into a Mughal sensibility, refined over generations in the imperial workshops of Agra, where Akbar brought weavers from Herat in the sixteenth century to establish one of the subcontinent’s most enduring craft lineages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the following two centuries, the Agra tradition became recognisable by its palette and its composition. Deep crimson and indigo grounds. A dominant central medallion, lobed at the edges, radiating into dense arabesques. Borders that carried their own logic — cypress forms, flowering vines, geometric interlacing — giving the whole surface an architectural quality. Objects made in this vocabulary were designed to outlast occasion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ‘Darbar’ placements translate this language from loom to table. The medallion-and-border composition — maroon, navy, gold — is rendered onto wood, compressed to a dining surface, finished for daily use. The reference is unmistakable. The effect is quieter than the original: not a reproduction, but a reminder of a visual tradition that has always found its way into domestic life, and always belonged there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese placements are handcrafted in wood with a printed surface. Variations in tone and colour across a set are a natural feature of the process.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMinor differences in print registration or surface texture should be understood as the signature of individual craft, not a defect.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Karo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45191469105175,"sku":null,"price":176.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/7711\/9511\/files\/KaroListings.svg?v=1780655386"},{"product_id":"ambika-table-placements-in-wood-set-of-6","title":"Kanchan Table Placements – Ornament of Gold, Set of Six","description":"\u003ch5\u003eProvenance\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Indian domestic life, gold is rarely purely ornamental — it marks the threshold between ordinary and auspicious. Gold-embellished objects signal welcome: the gilded edge of a serving vessel, the gold-painted surface of the puja object brought out for ceremony, the tint that elevates a functional object into an act of hospitality. The tradition of gold-decorated woodware in North India — lacquered, brushed, applied — sits within a long inheritance of objects that understood the table as a site of ritual as much as function.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ‘Kanchan’ placements carry that language forward. The gold tints and rich colour palette are not decoration for their own sake — they are the residue of a cultural convention in which the objects surrounding food and gathering were expressions of welcome and care. To set a table with these placements is to continue, in small and daily form, a tradition that has always understood beauty as a form of hospitality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese placements are handcrafted in wood with a printed surface. Variations in tone and colour across a set are a natural feature of the process.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMinor differences in print registration or surface texture should be understood as the signature of individual craft, not a defect.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Karo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45191469137943,"sku":null,"price":176.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/7711\/9511\/files\/Karo_Listings_2.svg?v=1780655477"},{"product_id":"paarijat-table-placements-in-wood-set-of-6","title":"Harshingar Table Placements – The Celestial Flower at Table, Set of Six","description":"\u003ch5\u003eProvenance\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Indian mythology, the parijata (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis) does not belong to this world. The night-jasmine was said to have its origins in Indra’s heaven, brought to earth during the churning of the cosmic ocean. Each evening its blossoms open; by morning they have fallen — a cycle so precise it became associated with devotion, with the ephemeral, with the sacred moment between dusk and dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flower appears in Mughal botanical illustration with notable fidelity — catalogued in the margins of court manuscripts, depicted in the natural-world surveys that Mughal emperors commissioned. It appears in temple courtyards across the subcontinent, used in morning offerings, its fragrance marking a particular quality of Indian evening air.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ‘Harshingar’ placements carry this botanical vocabulary to the dining table. Set of six, each piece individually handcrafted — the motif condensed to a daily surface, the ancient flower brought into the rhythm of the ordinary meal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese placements are handcrafted in wood with a printed surface. Variations in tone and colour across a set are a natural feature of the process.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMinor differences in print registration or surface texture should be understood as the signature of individual craft, not a defect.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Karo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45191469334551,"sku":null,"price":176.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/7711\/9511\/files\/KaroListings_6.svg?v=1780655735"},{"product_id":"aafiya-table-placements-in-wood-set-of-6","title":"Tehzeeb Table Placements – Ornament of Well-Being, Set of Six","description":"\u003ch5\u003eProvenance\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eTehzeeb (تہذیب) — civilisation, refinement, the cultivation of manners and culture — was the governing concept of Nawabi Lucknow. In the courts of Awadh, tehzeeb named the entire edifice of considered conduct: the way one spoke, received guests, arranged a room, set a table. It was not ornament for its own sake but the visible expression of an interior state — attentiveness made outward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe surface of the dining spread was part of that language. The placement of objects — the textures beneath serving vessels, the visual rhythm of the table — drew on Persian, Mughal, and regional Indian conventions simultaneously. The ‘Tehzeeb’ placements are a contemporary echo of that tradition: an opulent design language compressed to the dining table, where beauty and care meet in daily form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese placements are handcrafted in wood with a printed surface. Variations in tone and colour across a set are a natural feature of the process.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMinor differences in print registration or surface texture should be understood as the signature of individual craft, not a defect.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Karo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45191469498391,"sku":null,"price":215.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/7711\/9511\/files\/Karo_Listings_8.svg?v=1780655806"},{"product_id":"bee-table-placements-in-wood-set-of-6","title":"Palash Table Placements – The Leaf at Table, Set of Six","description":"\u003ch5\u003eProvenance\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore the placemat existed — before the concept of a defined surface beneath a setting — there was the leaf. Across the Indian subcontinent, large leaves served as the original plates, trays, and dining surfaces: the banana leaf across South and coastal India; the lotus leaf in sacred contexts; the sal and palash leaves stitched into patravali in the north; the mango leaf strung across thresholds for auspicious occasions. The leaf form is among the oldest domestic objects in the subcontinent’s material culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ‘Palash’ placements take their name from Butea monosperma — the flame-of-the-forest, whose trifoliate leaves are the original material of the patravali. The design returns this vocabulary to the table: the leaf of the palash tree rendered on wood, the botanical motif brought back to the surface it originally occupied. Set of six.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese placements are handcrafted in wood with a printed surface. 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In Indian craft tradition, the kairi’s distinctive teardrop outline is the original source of the boteh: the motif that travelled westward through Kashmiri shawl weaving and Persian textile trade routes to become the paisley, one of the most widely reproduced decorative forms in the world. The shape began here, on the branch, in the mango grove.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mango tree (Mangifera indica) is one of the most deeply embedded presences in Indian material and spiritual life — its leaves used to mark auspicious doorways, its fruit depicted in Mughal miniatures and temple carvings, its form reproduced in textiles across centuries. The ‘Kairi’ placements carry this inheritance: a warm, composed design on a beige ground — the richness of a tradition that has always connected the objects around food with something larger than hunger. Set of six, each piece handcrafted individually.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese placements are handcrafted in wood with a printed surface. Variations in tone and colour across a set are a natural feature of the process.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMinor differences in print registration or surface texture should be understood as the signature of individual craft, not a defect.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Karo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45191470514199,"sku":null,"price":176.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/7711\/9511\/files\/Karo_Listings_16.svg?v=1780656142"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.brahmcollection.com\/en-in\/collections\/table-placements.oembed","provider":"Brahm Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}